For some, the George Wilson Center on New London Road is just a brick building used for birthday parties, summer camps and city events, but for those who grew up in the surrounding neighborhoods, it’s much, much more than that. It’s a piece of Newark’s African-American history and, for many years, the only place where […]
On the blog this week Jasmina Chatani, a senior undergraduate majoring in Psychology with minors in HDFS and Cognitive Science, writes about her experience engaging with the community during her time at the University of Delaware. How Was I Engaged at UD? buildOn at UD I served on the executive board for buildOn at UD […]
When I asked UD senior and biomedical engineering student Cedric Whitney the orthodox question, “What are you doing after graduation?”, he gave me a non-orthodox answer: Starting a nonprofit. Big Ideas Can Come from Faraway Places In 2015, Cedric received scholarship funding to travel to La Paz, Bolivia. He brought with him a 3-D printer, […]
On the blog this week read about Sophi Leto, a senior undergraduate student at the University of Delaware, and her recent social media action project. Connecting Students with Causes Hi, my name is Sophi Leto. I’m an Anthropology major with minors in Art History, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Public Policy. This semester, I’m […]
The University of Delaware chapter of buildOn, sponsored by the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), is organizing another to Senegal in January 2018 to help launch construction of a new school that will serve a community, which currently lacks access to basic primary education. The service-learning trip, sponsored by SPPA, has around 10 […]
